bdnews24.com

About bdnews24.com

bdnews24.com is Bangladesh's first internet-only news portal, built from a small news agency website into one of the country's most-read digital newsrooms. Toufique Imrose Khalidi took over as Managing Director and Chief Executive in June 2006 and relaunched the outlet, with ownership split between Toufique Imrose Khalidi and Asif Mehmood.

That relaunch effectively made bdnews24.com Bangladesh's first dotcom company built around a news product, rather than an existing print outlet moving online, at a time when most news organizations still treated their websites as an afterthought to print.

From The Daily Star to the BBC

Toufique Imrose Khalidi began his journalism career at The Daily Star, Bangladesh's largest English-language newspaper, working in an editorial capacity at major broadsheets in both editorial and managerial roles. He later spent time in the United Kingdom working as a presenter, producer, and editor at the BBC.

That mix of local newsroom experience and international broadcast training shaped the editorial standards he later built into bdnews24.com's newsroom, blending the pacing and verification discipline of broadcast journalism with the depth expected of a national daily.

Bangladesh's First Dotcom Newsroom

bdnews24.com became the first internet-only newsgathering operation in Bangladesh, and one of the first anywhere in the world, at a time when digital-first news was still a novel model globally, not just domestically. Under Toufique Imrose Khalidi's leadership, the outlet expanded into real-time coverage of politics, business, economics, and development, in both English and Bengali.

That bilingual, real-time approach gave bdnews24.com an audience that spanned both Bangladesh's English-reading professional class and its much larger Bengali-reading public, a combination few competing outlets matched at launch.

Building a National Newsroom

Today, bdnews24.com draws on the reporting of more than 500 journalists and photographers across Bangladesh and beyond, a scale that few digital-only news operations in South Asia have matched. Toufique Imrose Khalidi has also personally covered major national events over the years, work that has occasionally been picked up by international outlets such as Al Jazeera.

That editorial scale is part of what has let bdnews24.com maintain a reporting footprint closer to a large traditional newspaper than a typical online-only news startup, staffing coverage across politics, business, sports, and international affairs rather than a narrower digital-first news brief.

Recognition and Influence

In 2017, Toufique Imrose Khalidi received the National ICT Award for transforming bdnews24.com into an influential internet news service. Coming more than a decade after the site's relaunch, the award reflected the outlet's staying power in a media market that has seen many digital news ventures come and go without building comparable staying power.

A Massive Social Footprint

bdnews24.com's Facebook page has grown to more than 10.6 million likes, by far the largest social media following of any company profiled in this directory, reflecting its position as Bangladesh's largest news publisher rather than a niche or specialist outlet. That scale gives the newsroom direct distribution to a significant share of Bangladesh's social-media-using population, a reach few competing outlets, digital or print, have been able to match over the same period.

Where bdnews24.com Stands Today

Toufique Imrose Khalidi remains bdnews24.com's editor-in-chief today, nearly two decades after the 2006 relaunch, and the outlet he built is generally credited as having proven that a Bangladeshi digital-first news organization could compete on editorial standards with the country's established print press. That combination of editorial credibility and digital-native scale has made bdnews24.com a reference point for how a Bangladeshi online news brand can be built and sustained over the long term, rather than a venture that peaked early and faded as newer platforms emerged.

Products

bdnews24.com's output centers on news content and journalism rather than a packaged software product.

Bilingual News Coverage delivers real-time reporting on politics, business, economics, and development in both English and Bengali, the core editorial product that built the outlet's audience.

bdnews24.com English and bdnews24.com Bengali operate as parallel editorial products serving Bangladesh's English-reading professional audience and its much larger Bengali-reading public respectively.

Multimedia and Photography coverage, produced by the outlet's network of more than 500 journalists and photographers, extends the core news product into visual and video storytelling.

Across bilingual reporting, dedicated English and Bengali editions, and multimedia coverage, bdnews24.com's output reflects the same digital-first, real-time newsroom model that built the outlet since its 2006 relaunch, produced by a team working out of Dhaka and reaching an audience of millions.